A Goodly Heritage

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a
goodly
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PIERREPONT B. NOYES
Few men have realized the American
dream that virtue triumphs and hard
work leads to success. But Pierrepont
Noyes is one of these few. His unusual
autobiography is the story of how gen-
uine idealism plus hard business sense
helped to build one of America s largest
silver companies, Oneida Ltd., makers of
Community Plate.
Mr. Noyes's idealism rose from his
early and extraordinary training. His
father, John Humphrey Noyes, was the
founder of the now-famous Oneida Com-
munity, which Pierrepont Noyes de-
scribed in his earlier book, My Fathers
House. In the Community, a group of
men and women lived together accord-
ing to the tenets of "Perfectionism." These
people did not believe in worldly suc-
cess, the ownership of property, or even
the "ownership" of a woman in marriage.
The children were raised communally.
They did not see much of their own
parents and their days were filled with
group activities: sport and study.... Tovább

Fülszöveg

a
goodly
heritage
PIERREPONT B. NOYES
Few men have realized the American
dream that virtue triumphs and hard
work leads to success. But Pierrepont
Noyes is one of these few. His unusual
autobiography is the story of how gen-
uine idealism plus hard business sense
helped to build one of America s largest
silver companies, Oneida Ltd., makers of
Community Plate.
Mr. Noyes's idealism rose from his
early and extraordinary training. His
father, John Humphrey Noyes, was the
founder of the now-famous Oneida Com-
munity, which Pierrepont Noyes de-
scribed in his earlier book, My Fathers
House. In the Community, a group of
men and women lived together accord-
ing to the tenets of "Perfectionism." These
people did not believe in worldly suc-
cess, the ownership of property, or even
the "ownership" of a woman in marriage.
The children were raised communally.
They did not see much of their own
parents and their days were filled with
group activities: sport and study.
In 1879 the Community was dis-
solved. Pierrepont Noyes, his half-
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brother and his sister went to live with
their mother in an unfamiliar outside
world. Young Pierrepont learned to com-
pete with others whose backgrounds had
been far more worldly than his own, and
yet he never lost a sense of unity with
those with whom he had shared his
childhood.
As a young man, Pierrepont Noyes
worked in New York City, where he had
some success as a silver salesman. But
the affections of his early youth drew
him back to Oneida. There he married
the girl with whom he had fallen in love
at eighteen and in due course he became
the leader in the development of Oneida
Ltd.
One of the interesting things about
this company is the emphasis it places
on community living, the harmonious re-
lationship between labor and manage-
ment and its system of profit sharing.
These policies, which have functioned so
successfully, had their origins in the
ideals of the original Oneida Community.
This, then, is the story of a man
whose life was devoted to the service
of his company, his community and his
country. Vissza